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This briefing was presented at the November 10 and November 18 Ohio Federal Research Network Round 5 Pre-Release Opportunity Announcement Info Sessions. Information pertaining to Key Dates and Volume submissions may have changed since the time of the briefing. Consult the most recent OFRN Round 5 Pre-Release Opportunity Announcement Amendment document located at https://ohiofrn.orgfor details.

https://ohiofrn.org/

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OFRN Round 5 Pre-Release Opportunity Announcement

Info SessionNovember 10 & 18, 2020

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Agenda

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Welcome – IntroductionsOFRN BriefingFederal Partner AOI OverviewQ&ATeaming Connections and Upcoming Proposal TrainingConclusion

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Our Purpose

The Ohio Federal Research Network (OFRN) was established in 2015 to stimulate Ohio’s innovation economy by building vibrant, statewide, university-based research collaborations that meet the requirements of Ohio’s federal laboratories, partnering with the commercial sector to create new products and build workforce in Ohio.

OFRN engages a broad and active array of stakeholders, fortifying Ohio’s high-tech research and workforce capabilities and expanding federal contracting opportunities in areas such as national defense, space exploration, and aeronautics.

Ultimately, OFRN builds partnerships among innovators in academia, industry and government in support of US defense and civil space missions.

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Our Strategic Focus

The OFRN strategic focus is to: • Capitalize on federal and university research assets; • Integrate Ohio firms and industrial partners into proposed projects aligned with federal

partner needs; • Better prepare and train universities and firms in Ohio to compete for federal funding; • Facilitate the transition of government funded technology to commercial markets; • Help create the jobs, processes and firms of tomorrow, in Ohio; and • Differentiate Ohio from other states relative to its commitment and support of our

national defense and civil aviation and space missions.

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Our Partners

OFRN builds partnerships among academia, industry and government in support of US defense and civil space missions.

Our partners include:

• Air Force Research Labs (AFRL)• National Air and space Intelligence Center (NASIC)• Naval Medical Research Unit-Dayton (NAMRU-D)• National Aeronautics and Space Administration Glenn

Research Center (NASA-GRC)

• State of Ohio’s Adjutant General (TAG)• Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT)• 12 universities• 2 community colleges• 90 businesses • 8 spinout organizations

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• $40M OFRN Funds invested

• 28 Projects Funded

• $194M in Project Follow-on Funding

• 905 Jobs Created and Impacted

• 12 IP Invention Disclosures

• 8 Spinout Organizations

• $4.85M raised by project spinout organizations

Our Impact

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Initiated in 2017, first funded projects in 2018 | OFRN Round 3 & Round 4 Projects

SOARING Initiative

Ohio FederalResearch Network

Federal & State Infrastructure

Collaborative Partnerships

OFRN funded projects to carryout applied research ($900K-$2.1M per project)

New public/private, Ohio/USAF/Navy/NASA/ONG beyond line of site location for test & demo

University, industry, and federal partnerships provided research, testing, and cost share

Public/private challenge problem:Overcome technological barriers to enable more

widespread adoption of UAVs, PAVs and LDVs into the national airspace

Sustaining Ohio's Aeronautical Readiness and Innovation in the Next Generation

Vision: Make Ohio the nexus for unmanned air systems (UASs), personal air vehicles (PAVs), and logistics delivery air vehicles (LDAVs) testing, integration and manufacturing.

Remoted Piloted AirplaneNew PAV testbed that can be used for air space integration testing and new autonomy systems

Unjammable RadarNew sense and avoid technologies integrated on UAV and integrated Air Traffic Control system

Electric MotorFoundational brushless motor enabling next generation power systems with 30% weigh reduction

Universal Flight Data TranslatorTelemetry and data integration into national air traffic control systems

Computer-Human Interaction for Rapid Program Analysis through Cognitive Collaboration

Multi-purpose Mast/Aerial 360 radar/optical fused sensors for Perimeter Monitoring and Aerial Detect and Avoid

Geometrically-Complex 3D Printed Antennas for

Resilient and Secure UAS Flight Control

Interoperability, Resiliency, and Contingency Management for Ohio UAS Operations

A Hybrid Fuel Cell–Battery–Capacitor Power Source for UAS

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Round 5 Process Overview

Project Teams Must Include:• At least 1 industry member

- Role can be as lead applicant or collaborator

• At least 2 Ohio colleges/universities- Role can be as lead applicant or collaborator- AFIT is eligible

• At least 1 federal partner/sponsor• AFRL, NASA-GRC, NAMRU-D, and/or NASIC• Financial commitment from federal partner is NOT necessary

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Round 5 Process Overview

Proposals consist of:• Technical Proposal (due Jan. 29, 2021):

• Volume 2 (Technical) – 15 pages, • 2A (Supplemental) – 3 pages, and • 2B (Slide Deck) – 15 slides

• Cost proposal (due Mar. 17, 2021)

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Round 5 Process Overview

• Round 5 includes a requirement for a Student Experience and Engagement Initiative (SEE) which is to be designed by the proposing team based on the guidelines within the Appendix 6

• Team Matchmaking Assistance• Training

• Dec. 2nd – Proposal training (mandatory)• Pitch deck and presentation training (for proposals selected to pitch) - Group

session - 90 minutes (mandatory)• Pitch training – 1-1 sessions - 2 sessions, 1 hour each (optional)

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Key Dates

Event Key DateOpportunity Announcement Pre- Release Oct. 29, 2020Opportunity Announcement Informational Session and Q&A with Federal SMEs (2 virtual sessions)

Nov. 10, 2020 (10:00am– 12:00pm ET)*Nov. 18, 2020 (1:00pm-3:00pm ET)*

Opportunity Announcement Formal Release Nov. 20, 2020Proposal Training Dec. 2, 2020*Proposal Questions Accepted Through Jan. 6, 2021Due date for Volume 2 (Technical), 2A (Supplemental), and 2B (Slide Deck)

Jan. 29, 2021, by 5:00pm ET

Notification of Selection for Final Pitch Day Feb.17, 2021Due date for Volume 1 (Business and Cost Proposal) March 17, 2021Pitch Day March 23- 24, 2021 Proposal Review Apr. 2, 2021Awards Announced Apr. 7, 2021Projects Start Apr. 22, 2021Student Intern Orientation Apr. 29, 2021

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Round 5 Project Review Process

1. Proposals are reviewed by the OFRN Technical Review Council (TRC). Most meritorious proposals are invited to pitch

2. Pitch Day: Selected teams pitch to the TRC w/Q&A (pitch audience is restricted to just TRC and OFRN staff)

3. TRC recommends award selection to the OFRN Executive Review Board (ERB) (~ 1 Week)

Award Decision

Stage 2: Pitch

Similar to AF SBIR/STTR Pitch Days

Stage 1: Proposal

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Federal Partner Areas of Interest

AOIs

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1. Vertical Take-Off & Landing (VTOL)2. Situational Awareness & Proliferated Surveillance

Systems3. Patient care in austere and contested environments4. Personal Exposure Devices5. Acceleration effects6. Enabling Human-Machine Teaming Using Brain-

Machine Interfaces7. Advanced Power Systems Applicable to Aviation

Propulsion, Micro-Grids, and Lunar Surface Operations

8. Quantum Communications9. Applications of commercial satellites to humanitarian,

disaster, and defense topics10. Large Data Set Triage11. Journal Article Warning and Correlation12. Other

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AOI #1 Vertical Take-off & Landing (VTOL)

There has been an explosion of interest in the ‘flying car’ concept to the Air Force due to the lack of need for runway. The ability to land wherever, whenever greatly eases the logistic burden of resupply and minimizes trends in terms of operational footprints. Building off the extensive commercial drone market, a number of key technologies are needed to enable such concepts at an order of magnitude larger in scale in order to address the areas and challenges for military / civil VTOL systems. These include for large VTOL capabilities:

• Battery Energy Storage• Battery/recharging designs, which facilitate safe, rapidly recharge systems without overheating or degrade longevity and reliability, to provide high-

rate recharge (5-10 min) for multiple cycles (50-100 per day), and to support the demands of the appropriate lift/weight ratios (Note: This is not about developing a new battery chemistries but enabling battery consistency in government / commercial sectors (e.g. Lithium/Ion/Polymer types)).

• Power supply – recharging stations which should be able to run safely and effectively off commercially available circuits/wattage/amperage in a residential or office building

• Propulsion sources to provide the appropriate lift/weight ratio and decrease ambient noise

• Sensing hardware/software and platform designs to enable both manned and unmanned flight operations addressing• Reliable, Controllable Flight in Three-Dimensional Flow Fields

• Design objectives accounting for wind turbulences (e.g., up, down, cross drafts) in congested urban settings, and maintaining reliable flight control• Air data sensors to detect and avoid “clear day” wind shears (e.g., updrafts, downdrafts, crosswinds)• MS&A of air currents will lead to enhancements to stability controls of aircraft to ensure safety, security, and reliability in these settings. This is essential for Air

Worthiness certification• Human Factors / Human-Machine Interfaces

• On-board passenger interaction with “virtual pilot” for situational awareness of impending maneuvers and phases of flight. Dealing with onboard passenger emergencies (e.g., sickness, etc.) and ability to reroute to emergency care; activation of 911 system at destination or alternate land sites, etc.

• External interface with passengers while on ground – awareness and communication with passengers and non-passengers in proximity to the vehicle, and maintenance personnel

• Modeling and Simulation of air traffic management system for airspace deconfliction, route planning and approval, protocols for degraded visibility, weather / darkness

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AOI #2 Situational Awareness and Proliferated Surveillance Systems

• Building upon technological advances in sensors and sensor suites, DoD is looking for unique affordable solutions for surveillance on the ground, in the air, and in space. Proposals may include but are not limited to, a complete surveillance system for ground, air, and/or space; affordable sensor suites, data visualization tools to display complex data simply and quickly; and the ability to analyze images. Technical approaches should focus on the “find, fix, and track” part of the kill chain. Electro-optical (EO) and radio frequency (RF) sensing strategies such as:

• Advanced EO and IR sensing systems that balance cost and performance are needed for new expendable and attritable air systems, and replenish space

• Technologies that address flexible high resolution, long range EO/IR imaging along with multi-mode LIDAR (3D shape, vibration sensing, and synthetic aperture imaging) for stand-off and penetrating ISR.

• Technologies for a compact hyperspectral imaging (HIS) system and staring infrared search and track for attritable platforms foruse in highly contested environments.

• Technology that addresses the need for low cost, size, weight, and power (C-SWaP) RF sensors for attritable and expendable platforms. This would include such things as additive manufacturing techniques to reduce cost over traditional fabrication techniques, as well as the use of commercial off-the-shelf components, including transmit/receive modules, RF system-on-chip, FPGAs, and software-defined radio (SDR) technology to build low-cost RF sensors.

• RF sensing concepts that take advantage of the diversity (spatial, temporal, power, frequency and polarization) made possiblevia wideband, dual-polarized and software-defined RF systems to enhance sensor capability to find, fix and track targets of interest and improve situational awareness. Techniques that use multiple, proliferated RF systems to improve performance via geometric diversity are also of interest.

• Solutions/concepts addressing these technical needs are preferred, but others will also be considered.

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AOI #3 Patient care in austere and contested environments

Technologies to enhance patient recovery, transport, and care to include autonomous recovery of injured service members in contested environments, UAV-based casualty evacuation (CASEVAC). Operations and enabling technologies may include autonomous/remotely commanded robotic casualty recovery and stabilization in contested environments, casualty monitoring, integrated smart medical equipment, autonomous and/or remote care en route, secure data streaming to receiving facility, medical sensor fusion and diagnostics, robotics, artificial intelligence, and other technologies.

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AOI #4 Personal Exposure Devices

Development of personal exposure monitoring devices, such as personal dosimeters, to measure and report exposure to biological and toxic industrial chemicals and compounds. Devices should report exposure levels in real-time.

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AOI #5 Acceleration Effects

Military operations including ground, sea, air, and space-based missions expose service members to various unusual or extreme accelerative forces, presenting threats to health, safety, readiness, and mission performance. There is broad interest and need for better understanding and mitigation of such accelerative threats as whole-body vibration, impact acceleration (i.e., crash), high-g acceleration, and dynamic acceleration. Mitigations for fatigue, neck and back pain and injury, impact injury, g-loss of consciousness, spatial disorientation, and motion sickness are of particular interest.

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AOI #6 Improving Human-Machine Teaming Performance Using Brain-Machine Interface (BMI)

Technologies

Intelligent autonomous systems can provide valuable tactical information to the warfighter. However, this has also led an overabundance of information the warfighter/operator has to sift through to identify potential threats and make effective decisions. We seek proposals that can design, develop, and validate a multi-modal brain-machine interface (BMI)-enabled technology platform that operates for active and/or reactive control for enabling decision making in information dense environments, and facilitating human-machine cooperative intelligence. Proposers may consider ‘hybrid’ BMI architectures that facilitate the integration with other physiological and behavioral (e.g., eye tracking) technologies to inform the BMI if necessary to achieve the multi-modal interface.

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AOI #7 Advanced Power Systems Applicable to Aviation Propulsion, Micro-Grids, and Lunar Surface

Operations

There is an increasing demand for electrical power to be available independent of the current Electrical Power Grid(s) found on Earth. This includes critical aviation, space, and terrestrial applications where crew well-being, productivity, critical infrastructure (data servers, etc.), and security are involved. These applications require high efficiency power management and distribution systems delivering highly reliable power (>0.999999) and includes diverse power source and energy storage integration strategy to meet the needs of the consumer. These future systems require development of key technologies and capabilities:

• System control – Solutions that can integrate regulators and interface converters and result in a collaborative system instead of a competitive system. For example, being able to integrate and equally consume power from different types of power sources without having the two regulators fight each other and having to switch between the sources.

• System Protection – Methods enabling robust specification and assurance of safety critical functions, despite mission and fault transients, within and beyond the electrical power system. Develop system protection approaches using regulators to reduce fault energy and provide fast detection, isolation, and reconfiguration of electrical network elements.

• System Stability - A solution to reduce the influence and destabilizing effects of nonlinearities such as constant power, changeto constant current, fold back, pulsed loads, and system bifurcation modes.

• Thermal - An integrated power and thermal management system which can be used to provide enhanced monitoring, diagnostic, and prognostic understanding of power system states and avoid thermal constraints by restricting power to avoid exceeding thermal limits. The intended solution would provide superior power management capability including predictive thermal operational issues and provide time to change power management directions.

• Energy Storage – Understanding usage of distributed energy storage (batteries, capacitors, inductors, supercapacitors, flywheels, etc.) and hybrid energy storage and control methods to enable advanced power system control approaches. This can include power architectures that enable advanced methods of control and integration of energy storage.

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AOI #8 Quantum Communications

NASA seeks highly secure communications technologies for mission and safety critical aviation and spacecraft applications. Quantum communications use entangled photons for transmissions, enabling highly secure communication systems. NASA is interested in the development and demonstration of quantum communications technologies such as high-efficiency photon entangled sources, quantum repeaters, high-efficiency quantum detectors, and quantum cryptography. Advances in these technologies will enable quantum communication networks with unlimited security.

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AOI #9 Applications of commercial satellites to humanitarian, disaster, and

defense topics

With recent growth in commercial satellite availability the DoD is interested in tools and data management processes using these commercially available sensors. How might these resources be rapidly tasked and exploited in a time sensitive crisis to support humanitarian, disaster relief, and defensive efforts.

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AOI #10 Large Data Set Triage

With the advent of large file storage systems, the DoD is interested in tools and techniques aimed at the timely triage of large computer file collections (i.e. potentially terabytes of data). The need to determine the most useful files (e.g. relevancy) to be examined by analysts is critical for managing resources to allow for timely translation and analysis of the data.

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AOI #11 Journal Article Warning and Correlation

In trying to determine the most disruptive and critical emerging technologies the DoD is interested in tools that can read, and correlate people, places, and technologies that will allow us to set alerts for breaking or new technologies (i.e. a sudden 50% increase in a specific area could be one example of an alert), and capable of reading and processing in multiple languages (i.e., structured data, multiple databases).

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AOI #12 Other Topics

Proposers may suggest any relevant topic(s) not listed but that have clear application and utility for SOARING focus areas. Proposers will be expected to provide the same level state of the art context, metrics, description of an emergency demonstration, federal alignment, and long-term benefits.

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Round 5 Training Overview

December 2nd – MANDATORY Proposal Group Training

After Down Select – MANDATORY Pitch and Pitch Deck Group Training

After Pitch Training – OPTIONAL 1:1 Pitch Reviews and Feedback

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Round 5 Training Overview (Dec. 2)

Training Topics – Volume 1

Requirements for Business Proposal

Requirements for Cost Proposal

Changes from Round 4

Volume Presenter

Volume 1: Cost Volume Chris Lockhart

Volume 2: Technical Volume Burr Zimmerman

Volume 2a: Supplemental Burr Zimmerman

Volume 2b: Pitch Deck Chris Mather

About the Presenter: Chris Lockhart Parallax Director of Contracts Former DOE Senior Contracting Officer (Los Alamos) Certified Professional Contracts Manager/FAC-C

Level III

15-Slide Deck

V2: Technical Volume

V1: Cost Volume

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Round 5 Training Overview (Dec. 2)

Training Topics – Volume 2 Summarize OFRN Round 5 RFP:

Technical Volume components and formatting

Supplemental Volume metrics, demo Merit review criteria

Outcomes: Effectively frame your project Ensure completeness of your

technical narrative Align better with OFRN vision and

goals

Volume Presenter

Volume 1: Cost Volume Chris Lockhart

Volume 2: Technical Volume Burr Zimmerman

Volume 2a: Supplemental Burr Zimmerman

Volume 2b: Pitch Deck Chris Mather

About the Presenter: Dr. Burr Zimmerman Founder and principal of Urban Venture Group, Inc. PhD Chemical Engineering Over $750 million in proposal wins OFRN Proposal Trainer since 2016

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V2: Technical Volume

V1: Cost Volume

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Round 5 Training Overview (Dec 2)

Training Topics – Slide Deck Slide decks vs. presentation decks Advantages of the slide deck format OFRN Round 5 slide deck requirements “Telling your story” through your deck

Consistent with your technical writeup Leads to a consistent finalist presentation

Slide design tips Compelling, complete and clear decks Avoiding a crowded and cluttered slide deck The “little things that make a huge difference

Examples of winning presentation deck slides

Volume Presenter

Volume 1: Cost Volume Chris Lockhart

Volume 2: Technical Volume Burr Zimmerman

Volume 2a: Supplemental Burr Zimmerman

Volume 2b: Pitch Deck Chris Mather

About the Presenter: Chris Mather• 14 Years Sales, Marketing Management• 11 Years Technology CEO/ GM• 16 Years Entrepreneurial Development• Specialist in Venture Pitch Training

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V2: Technical Volume

V1: Cost Volume

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Round 5 Team Matchmaking

Round 5 Requires• Two Universities• One Industry Partner• A Federal Partner

IF YOU NEED A PARTNER• To Satisfy Requirements• To Fill a Technical Gap

GoTo OhioFRN.org• Link to “Team Matchmaking” Form• Advertise Your Need• Automatically Populates Sheet• Sheet Link Distributed to OFRN ListServ

http://www.ohiofrn.org/

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Round 5 Team Matchmaking

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Contact

Robert TannerOFRN Executive Director

Bob.tanner@parallaxresearch.org

Mark Bartman, Maj Gen (Ret.), USAFConsultant for OSU Office of ResearchBartman.8@osu.edu

Becky Mescher

OFRN Program CoordinatorBecky.Mescher@parallaxresearch.org

mailto:Bob.tanner@parallaxresearch.orgmailto:Bartman.8@osu.edumailto:Becky.Mescher@parallaxresearch.org

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Contact

https://ohiofrn.org

Slide Number 1OFRN Round 5 Pre-Release Opportunity Announcement�Info SessionAgendaOur PurposeOur Strategic FocusOur PartnersOur ImpactSOARING InitiativeRound 5 Process OverviewRound 5 Process OverviewRound 5 Process OverviewKey DatesRound 5 Project Review ProcessFederal Partner Areas of Interest�AOIsAOI #1 Vertical Take-off & Landing (VTOL)AOI #2 Situational Awareness and Proliferated Surveillance SystemsAOI #3 Patient care in austere and contested environmentsAOI #4 Personal Exposure DevicesAOI #5 Acceleration EffectsAOI #6 Improving Human-Machine Teaming Performance Using Brain-Machine Interface (BMI) TechnologiesAOI #7 Advanced Power Systems Applicable to Aviation Propulsion, Micro-Grids, and Lunar Surface OperationsAOI #8 Quantum CommunicationsAOI #9 Applications of commercial satellites to humanitarian, disaster, and defense topicsAOI #10 Large Data Set TriageAOI #11 Journal Article Warning and CorrelationAOI #12 Other TopicsRound 5 Training OverviewRound 5 Training Overview (Dec. 2)Round 5 Training Overview (Dec. 2)Round 5 Training Overview (Dec 2)Round 5 Team MatchmakingRound 5 Team MatchmakingContactContact